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AUSTIN — Gov. Bill Clements
received proposals Wednesday to
allieviate flood problems in south
Harris County from 13 students in
two Friendswood schools.
The youngsters from Westwood
Elementary School and C.W. Cline
Primary School are among pupils
who wrote 1,000 letters to Clements
asking help with flooding problems
in Friendswood-Clear Lake.
Todd Travaille, a fifth grader at
Westwood, read a proclamation from
Friendswood Mayor Ralph L. Lowe,
and also read his thoughts concern
ing a Friendswood flood last July 25.
“The flood has almost completely
changed some of our lives, ” he told
Clements. “Every time it rains even
a little, people are afraid that it will
all happen again. One of the kids says
her little sister is so afraid she can’t
go to sleep when it rains.”
Travaille said the group recom
mended new construction in the area
be limited. He said construction
companies should study effects their
projects will have on the area and
insure it can handle water affected by
the new construction.
Other proposals would require
surrounding counties handle their
own water “rather than dumping it
all on Friendswood,” and provide
more money to work on clogged
creeks.
“We know the solutions for our
problems will have to come from
many people, not just the governor,”
Travaille said. “But we feel it is im
portant for you to serve as a leader in
seeing that some of these ideas are
carried out.”
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HOUSTON — Texas offshore su
perport promoters, unable so far to
collect enough backing to build even
part of the $843 million project, cal
led a special Thursday meeting of the
Texas Deepwater Port Authority
board.
Executive Director Gerald Jack-
son declined to preview details of his
report to the board, but indications
were it would be gloomy.
Board Chairman Bob Casey and
his staff have sought last-ditch ways
to build the floating supertanker ter
minal 26 miles south of Freeport
since Jan. 10, when Jackson reported
the original plan failed to attract
enough users.
Among alternatives proposed at
the Jan. 10 meeting was building the
port in smaller, usable stages rather
than all at once to reduce the initial
building cost and minimize the need
for startup financing.
“We did work out a different finan
cial plan but they (potential users)
rejected it,” Jackson said. “I have no
idea how the board’s gonna react.”
Jackson declined to elaborate:
“I’m not being evasive, I just don’t
want to make any prior comment. I’ll
make my report to the board tomor
row in the open meeting.
TDPA planned a floating terminal
to serve supertankers too large for
existing onshore ports. The terminal
would pump crude oil from the tank
ers through a pipeline to onshore dis
tribution facilities near Freeport.
The idea was to finance the project
with bonds backed by binding use
agreements signed by oil and che
mical companies.
Experts figured TDPA needed
promises to import a total of 1.4 mil
lion barrels of crude oil daily through
the port to make it financially feasi
ble. TDPA gathered promises total
ing only 550,000 barrels a day.
Casey has said oil and chemical
companies are hesitant to commit
themselves to the project because
both the federal petroleum regula
tory climate and the international
oil-trading atmosphere are unstable.
Meanwhile, the $600 million
Louisiana offshore oil port, or
LOOP, was about 60 percent
finished 18 miles south of Grand Isle,
La. It will be capable of serving
ers as large as 600,000 tons,
LOOP spokesman TerryTm y\]sj'
said LOOP and the Texas pr)< rarv board
were not direct competitors^ 0 ] an to nar
they would serve different refe controversi
markets, hut Casey has wans Bernardo G
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economic boom to Louisiana
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have been proposed at C®;;
Christi and Galveston.
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from 45 to 72 feet and huildatEc
port on Harbor Island, wasstSj:
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gation District, but it had
strong opposition.
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AUSTIN — The Texas Railroad
Commission is too concerned with
protecting oil and gas companies to
worry about consumers being
gouged, critics charged Wednesday.
Jim Hightower, a former Texas
Observer editor running for a spot on
the three-member panel that over
sees the oil and gas industry, and
representatives of the Texas Con
sumer Association, American Agri
culture Movement, Citizens Orga
nized for Reform Now (ACORN),
labor unions, senior citizens and in
dependent service station operators
^barged the . Railroad Commission
sides with the industry at consumers’
expense.
“Texans know they are being
gouged on energy prices, and they
are wondering why their own gov
ernment won’t fight for them,”
Hightower said. “The answer is that
the public’s defender — the Texas
Railroad Commission — is curled up
in the lap of the very industries it is
supposed to he protecting us from.”
Hightower and the consumer
groups staged a news conference
outside the hotel where the commis
sion met with officials of the nation’s
largest oil companies and some of the
state’s biggest utilities.
“The railroad commissioners are
having a secret rendezvous with the
oil companies and the big utilities,
Hightower said. “What’s going on
here is an annual gathering that the
commission calls The State of the Oil
Industry Meeting. What it really is,
is an exclusive club meeting of the
national energy establishment. ”
Hightower and the consumer
group spokesmen complained they
were not invited to testify about
problems Texans face in paying for
gasoline, electricity and natural gas.
"The Railroad Commission is sup
posed to regulate the energy indus
try,” said Conrad Path, a senior
citizen spokesman. “Today, howev
er, the commission only represents
the industry, and in effet, says to hell
with the consumers. ”
Jack Jackson, ACORN spokes
man, said low and moderate income
families cannot understand why
natural gas costs more in Texas than
anywhere else.
Hightower said the Railroad Com
mission sent personal invitations for
Wednesday’s meeting to major oil
companies such as Exxon, Gulf,
Shell, Texaco and Mobil, and utili
ties such as Southern Union Gas and
Sar
El Paso Natural Gas.
"Not surprisingly, mosto
vitees happen to be contribtt*
the incumbent commisskaaii
election campaigns, Hijk Unitec
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tower is challenging, deniethji of the Oregc
ms were sent to oil JjAy was nan
p.iiiics .uni said thehearingwft|4ntonio Syn
for anyone to testify. troversial Fr
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and testified had he wanted to: Smith, 43,
with facts." Nugent said of W Leonard i
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AUSTIN — The Texas Sup United
Court Wednesday refusedto«K: DALLAS
er a Bexar County man’s SISirfed up with
damage suit against his wifempects in his
juries he suffered when acarslei himself as ar
driving slammed into him in:: the highest j
driveway. ; Stephen l
Michael D. Bruno of Urn sex, near Do 1
Cats filed the suit against his* las Morning
an effort to collect from aninsurii in California
company for the injuries he sift run his ad:
in the Nov. 9, 1975, accident, for sale to hi
On that date, Mrs. Bimufor a new life
attempting to move a carpark to work on a
the family’s slanting driveway,s|
accidentally accelerated theveraR
forward at a high rate of s:er
crushing her husband between®
car and another parked vehicle
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